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Re: Limited remote terminal access via cygwin]
- From: Garry Heaton <garry at heaton6 dot freeserve dot co dot uk>
- To: Cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 13:24:23 +0100
- Subject: Re: Limited remote terminal access via cygwin]
Reid Thompson wrote:
> after you login to your remote box run one of the following commands
> export TERM=xterm
> or
> export TERM=vt100
> or
> export TERM='whatever term type you normally use & is recognized on
> the remote system"
>
>
> reid
>
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Garry Heaton [mailto:garry at heaton6 dot freeserve dot co dot uk]
>>Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 7:46 AM
>>To: Cygwin
>>Subject: Limited remote terminal access via cygwin
>>
>>
>>I'm setting-up headless Linux/SAMBA servers for use in
>>Windows office networks which I want to admin from Windows
>>via Cygwin. When I 'ssh' into the Linux box from Cygwin I
>>only have limited terminal access. When I try to launch emacs
>>on the remote machine I get the response:
>>
>>emacs: Terminal type cygwin is not defined.
>>
>>When I examine files using 'less' I also receive the message:
>>
>>WARNING: terminal is not fully functional
>>
>>With 'less' the Cygwin/Windows terminal only displays a fixed
>>% of the file examined and will not scroll to the end.
>>
>>My Cygwin environment settings are:
>>
>>ntsec check_case:strict tty
>>
>>Garry Heaton
Tried all of these but nothing worked. I'm not running X on Cygwin. Just
console mode. Still can't scroll past the first screen of an opened file.
Emacs-nox also has display problems.
Garry
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